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ISO CHN● 2077 STATUS: CORPORATE HEGEMONY● SPHERE: ARASAKA

China

People’s Republic of China & Kang Tao Industrial Zones

[MAP: 1994 →][MAP: 2002 →][MAP: 2020 →][MAP: 2045 →][MAP: 2077 →]
CAPITAL / PRIMARY HUB
Beijing · Shenyang (Kang Tao HQ)
DOMINANT MEGACORPORATION / POWER BLOC
Kang Tao, SegAtari & Arasaka China
CANONICAL SOURCEBOOK CITATION
Pacific Rim Sourcebook (1994), pp. 58–83 · Firestorm: Stormfront & Shockwave (1997), pp. 40–45 · Cyberpunk RED Core Rulebook (2020), p. 253 · The World of Cyberpunk 2077 (2020), pp. 45–47

Chronological Geopolitical Record (1994–2077)

Complete era-by-era archival telemetry for China across all five canonical Cyberpunk anchor years.

ERA 1994 // 1994 CRASH·● NORTH-SOUTH CIVIL FRACTURE·● ARASAKA

1994: China — World Stock Crash & US Collapse

SOVEREIGNTY INDEX: 28%[LAUNCH 1994 MAP →]
CONTROLLING AUTHORITY (1994): Beijing PLA Central Committee vs. Southern Capitalist Zones
  • 01.Following the 1994 Crash, mainland China fractures into bitter civil conflict between hardline Maoist PLA commanders in the north and corporate free-enterprise zones in the south.
  • 02.Rural famine and desert expansion across the Gobi drive tens of millions of displaced villagers toward coastal megacities.
  • 03.Foreign zaibatsu led by Arasaka establish fortified manufacturing enclaves across Guangdong, Shenzhen, and Fujian.
HUMAN TOLL & CASUALTY ASSESSMENT30M+ Displaced in Civil Conflict & Northern Dust-Bowl Famine
MONETARY & ECONOMIC REGIMEFragmented Yuan & Eurodollar (€$)
ERA 2002 // SOVOIL COUP·● HONG KONG BIO-PLAGUE & CIVIL WAR·● ARASAKA

2002: China — SovOil Coup & Mideast Meltdown

SOVEREIGNTY INDEX: 18%[LAUNCH 2002 MAP →]
CONTROLLING AUTHORITY (2002): PLA Northern Directorate & Southern Corporate Syndicates
  • 01.Shortly after the 1997 British handover, a catastrophic biological plague sweeps Hong Kong, forcing the PLA to build a massive quarantine wall around the depopulated city.
  • 02.Inside the quarantined ruins of Alt-Hong Kong, rogue AIs and Rache Bartmoss’s DataKrash entities later establish the world’s largest machine citadel.
  • 03.Northern industrial cities like Shenyang begin consolidating state-backed weapons and cybernetics combines.
HUMAN TOLL & CASUALTY ASSESSMENT6M+ Dead in Hong Kong Bio-Plague · Walled Quarantine Zone
MONETARY & ECONOMIC REGIMEEurodollar (€$) & State Ration Scrip
ERA 2020 // 4TH CORP WAR·● FOURTH CORP WAR COASTAL BATTLES·● ARASAKA

2020: China — Fourth Corporate War & DataKrash

SOVEREIGNTY INDEX: 24%[LAUNCH 2020 MAP →]
CONTROLLING AUTHORITY (2020): Reunified Beijing Technocratic Party & Arasaka/Militech Proxies
  • 01.During the Fourth Corporate War, naval battles between OTEC/Militech and CINO/Arasaka devastate shipping across the East and South China Seas.
  • 02.Rache Bartmoss’s 2022 DataKrash allows transcendental AI Alt Cunningham to turn the walled ghost-city of Hong Kong into a haven for netrunner engrams.
  • 03.Beijing deploys cybernetically augmented PLA divisions to reassert central control over warring southern coastal provinces.
HUMAN TOLL & CASUALTY ASSESSMENTSevere Coastal Port Destruction & Net Infrastructure Collapse
MONETARY & ECONOMIC REGIMEEurodollar (€$)
ERA 2045 // TIME OF THE RED·● RISE OF KANG TAO MEGACORP·● ARASAKA

2045: China — Time of the Red & Reconstruction

SOVEREIGNTY INDEX: 22%[LAUNCH 2045 MAP →]
CONTROLLING AUTHORITY (2045): Beijing Party-Corporate Directorate & Kang Tao
  • 01.During the Time of the Red, a former Taiwanese defense firm is restructured in Shenyang with massive state-corporate backing into Kang Tao.
  • 02.Introducing the revolutionary A-22B Chao smart-pistol in 2040, Kang Tao catapults into the top tier of global weapons and security megacorporations.
  • 03.NetWatch and the PLA maintain a heavily armed physical and digital cordon around the AI-controlled ruins of Hong Kong.
HUMAN TOLL & CASUALTY ASSESSMENTHyper-Policed Industrial Megacities · Toxic Smog Basins
MONETARY & ECONOMIC REGIMEEurodollar (€$)
ERA 2077 // MODERN DYSTOPIA·● KANG TAO SMART-ARMS HEGEMONY·● ARASAKA

2077: China — Modern Megacorp Hegemony

SOVEREIGNTY INDEX: 14%[LAUNCH 2077 MAP →]
CONTROLLING AUTHORITY (2077): Kang Tao Corporate Directorate & Beijing State-Capitalist Council
  • 01.By 2077, Shenyang-headquartered Kang Tao rivals Arasaka and Militech globally, operating floating aerodyne carriers and private armies from China to Night City.
  • 02.Chinese industrial megacities operate under total biometric social-credit surveillance where Kang Tao employment determines citizenship tier.
  • 03.Environmental collapse has turned much of northern China into arid industrial badlands while coastal towers gleam with neon.
HUMAN TOLL & CASUALTY ASSESSMENT82% Urban Workforce in 72-Hour Corporate Factory Shifts
MONETARY & ECONOMIC REGIMEEurodollar (€$)

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